I share a similar story. Instead of Brad Smith describing Batch Sparging, for me it was Don Osborn.
When I first began brewing again, I researched various ways to brew. I found some guys doing videos on You Tube: first the guys from Northern Brewer who ‘introduced’ me to Don Osborn (
http://www.donosborn.com/) who said he used a Cheap and Easy method called batch sparging and cited some guy named Denny Conn. I needed low entry cost so I checked it out.
I gravitated towards batch sparging fairly quickly because I figured I could do what I saw Don O doing on YouTube (which he learned from Denny). It wasn’t long until I had a blue picnic cooler, a pot and turkey fryer, and a bucket fermenter setup.
Though I’ve added a pump with flow control and distribution, first RIMS now HERMS, induction cooktop and indoor brewery, etc. — the underlying system is still a MLT, kettle, and fermenter based on what I saw on YouTube.
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